Holy crap!

[Akira 0]

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=12052002-105108-1155r

I can see layin' a nice barrage on some sleepy hamlet on Malden or Everon....sweeeet.

[SKULLS_Viper 0]

So do we Akira...so do we.

[Jester983 0]

Is there something wrong with the link? Cause its taking sooooo damn long to load.

[SKULLS_Viper 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Is there something wrong with the link? Cause its taking sooooo damn long to load. <span id='postcolor'>

No.Well i have cable, so i dont know.Its just a artical of a gun that can shoot 100000 per sec.Or some thing like that.

[Grey Fox 0]

Its not loading for me either so I'm gonna guess. Is it a converted DC-3 (Puff the Magic Dragon )

[SKULLS_Viper 0]

Hold. i'll copy and paste it hear.

[SKULLS_Viper 0]

It seems to be down.

[Jester983 0]

That sucks. Tell us when its up again plz.

[R. Gerschwarzenge 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">'Metal Storm' weapons may replace Crusader

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

UPI Editor At Large

From the International Desk

Published 5/12/2002 115 PM

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(EXCLUSIVE)

WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- A new ballistic technology that can fire burst rates in excess of one million rounds per minute from a 36-barrel weapon was one of the reasons Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld canceled the $11 billion Crusader artillery system.

The technology is known as "Metal Storm," which is also the name of the Australian research and development company that owns it.

The fastest weapons today are mechanical Gatling gun styles that can fire at the rate of some 6,000 rounds per minute. Infantry rifles average 600 rounds, which is the firing rate for a magazine of 15 to 30 rounds.

Admiral Bill Owens, a retired former deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and author of "Lifting the Fog of War," a controversial book about defense modernization, is the chairman of the board of Metal Storm Ltd. With multimillion-dollar contracts, Metal Storm works closely with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Australian Defense Science and Technology Organization. Chuck Vehlow, a former general manager of the Boeing helicopter division, is the company's new chief corporate officer. Vehlow has negotiated big-ticket procurement contracts and technology licensing agreements with the Pentagon.

Most of Metal Storm's work is top secret. Already under development is an "area denial weapons system," including an unmanned aerial combat vehicle that will carry twelve 40-mm mortar boxes comprising a total of 1,200 tubes, and armed with 7,200 grenades. The system's unprecedented firing capabilities can lay down a continuous 50-meter-wide carpet of grenades for about two miles, firing all its grenades simultaneously with a five-yard separation on impact.

Another gun under development for a small combat aerial vehicle is multi-barreled and can fire 270 rounds onto a target in just .001 seconds without stress on the air frame or any drop in air speed.

The company's advanced individual combat weapon program is destined to replace small arms throughout the western alliance, said Mike O'Dwyer, company chief executive officer. The prototypes now being developed have a dual barrel capability to fire both 20-mm and 40-mm bursting munitions and standard 5.56-mm NATO ammunition.

The weapon will also fire "less-than-lethal" projectiles for riot control. The future infantry weapons hardware replacement program for Australia's small defense forces alone is estimated to be worth $700 million.

Metal Storm's submachine gun will be capable of firing multiple barrel rapid-fire bursts at 45,000 rounds per minute per barrel. The technology is 100 percent electronic. Its electronically variable rate of fire has been confirmed to one million rounds per minute.

The technology allows barrels to be grouped in any configuration required for a particular application because it has no moving parts, no separate magazine, no ammunition feed or ejection system. The only moving parts in this revolutionary ballistic technology are the bullets or other projectiles.

Next to "Metal Storm's" firepower, said a senior Pentagon acquisition official, the lumbering, 45-ton Crusader artillery tube would be obsolete equipment.

At the core of the new technology is a projectile design that allows multiple high-pressure ammo to be stacked in-line in a barrel, then electronically fired in sequence. In turn, multiple barrels can be grouped together to form compact weapons systems of unprecedented conventional firepower. These new weapons will have all-electronic access control systems to ensure that only authorized personnel use them. The dual function will also allow on-board selection at the press of a button between a non-lethal response capability and the kind of lethality that will deny an area to the enemy without having to use anti-personnel landmines.

Metal Storm also makes the Vle, a handgun with a 64-digit electronic keying system that conceals a transponder. An electronic message confirms when the weapon is set to fire and which fire setting is selected.

U.S. defense sources said the Metal Storm technological breakthrough will produce a new generation of weapons that will "accelerate out-of-atmosphere ballistic missile interdiction as well as biological and chemical cloud neutralization."

The technology is not just used for firing projectiles. It is an electronically controlled delivery system that has potential applications in fire fighting, fireworks displays, aerial advertising in the night sky, precision chemical distribution in agriculture, and seismic surveying for minerals and oil.

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Ouch.

[theavonlady 2]

More pics and article at Wired.

[USSoldier11B 0]

Damn, kinda like a Vulcan on steroid. The Navy already uses that technology on some of it's ships.

[Aculaud 0]

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GLUBLEGUlAHHHEEEELLLLAAAHGLEGLAAAAAAAA *Drooooooool*

Oh, hey Avon. Congrats, your in second place for most posts!

[theavonlady 2]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aculaud @ May 14 2002,10:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Oh, hey Avon. Congrats, your in second place for most posts!<span id='postcolor'>

Please don't spam.

[Major Fubar 0]

1,000,000 rpm....

Sounds impressive, but how long is your ammo going to last when your firing nearly 17,000 rounds a second?  

And is it just me, or does the weapon above read 10,000 rpm on the side?

[theavonlady 2]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Major Fubar @ May 14 2002,10:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Sounds impressive, but how long is your ammo going to last when your firing nearly 17,000 rounds a second?  <span id='postcolor'>

When you use their cement mixer attachment adapter, it just depends on the size of your fleet.

[Aculaud 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ May 14 2002,00:27)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aculaud @ May 14 2002,10:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Oh, hey Avon. Congrats, your in second place for most posts!<span id='postcolor'>

Please don't spam.<span id='postcolor'>

speak for yourself!

[barret 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (USSoldier11B @ May 14 2002,09:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Damn, kinda like a Vulcan on steroid. The Navy already uses that technology on some of it's ships.<span id='postcolor'>

Kinda Like this?

Mwhahahahaaha!!!!!! Its too bad it only shoots 4,500 rounds per min. But its hella faster than a vulcan.

[christophercles 0]

Its pretty cool tech, im suprised its not more popular.

http://www.metalstorm.com/ thats the site, its got some video's and stuff, but they are pretty mundane. Like putting "out" fires and stuff, whats the use of that?

[WKK Gimbal 0]

but if it has no sustained fire and is cumbersome to reload, it kinda kills the concept, no? I mean, gatling type weapons can fire on and on, I doubt this thing can. It seems more like a claymore with bullets, than a gun

[Akira 0]

I was really interested in the pilotless drone that can drop grenades in a 50 meter wide path for two miles....now that would be fun to lay down....

[moerty 0]

sweet mother! if this continues there will only be one gun in the future and a milion men taking care of the logistics in bringing ammo to said gun.

[barret 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (barret @ May 14 2002,09:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (USSoldier11B @ May 14 2002,09:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Damn, kinda like a Vulcan on steroid. Teh Navy already uses that technology on some of it's ships.<span id='postcolor'>

Kinda Like this?

Mwhahahahaaha!!!!!! Its too bad it only shoots 4,500 rounds per min. But its hella faster than a vulcan.<span id='postcolor'>

Oh, and did i mention that those are on all navy ships except for non-combantints?

[Akira 0]

Good ol' Phalanx....

Wonder if they will show those in Sum Of All Fears during the scene where the CVN is attacked....hmmmm....damn well better!

[Renagade 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ May 14 2002,08:59)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">More pics and article at Wired.

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Its old news,it was on this program called tommorows world over here ages ago and the stupid bitch was like isnt it evil LOL i bet relolading its a bitch though

"Both are funding deeper research into O'Dwyer's ideas, which he cooked up in his garage during more than a decade as an Australian retail store executive. "

LOL just imagine if he got busted by the cops halfway through making it

[Badgerboy 0]

I remember that episode. She really was a dozy cow, her argument didn't even make sense.

Anyway, yes this has been around for a loooong time now, but hasn't been picked up by anyone. I remember that a certain country was toying with the idea of mounting them on armoured vehicles, in order to score a hard kill on a incoming projectile. (Missile or SABOT/HEAT/MPAT etc). The Russians trialed a system like that called 'Arena' but used a small missile to do it. I think the hard part is detecting the incoming warhead though, so the program was shelved. As for 'Arena', I really don't know how thats going.